Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, claims that the National Enquirer tried to blackmail himJIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The richest man on Earth has beckoned the most powerful man in the world into the ring in his battle against an alleged blackmail attempt from America’s most notorious supermarket tabloid.

Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon and owns The Washington Post, dropped a series of loaded references to President Trump into his lengthy account of how the National Enquirer engaged in “extortion and blackmail” against him when he began investigating its reporting of the affair that ended his marriage. The 2,000-word blog post wove together an extraordinary mix of evidence and political innuendo, including the text of threatening emails, details of nude photographs, White House intrigue, a mysterious connection to Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Justice investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s finances.

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